The roads and railroads, vehicles, and modes of travelling, of ancient and modern countries; with accounts of bridges, tunnels, and canals, in various parts of the world .. (1839)
London : J.W. Parker · leaf 245
wheel-carriages. In someparts of America, and in other places in the old conti-nent, the wheels are literally nothing but transverse slicescut off from the trunk of a large tree. Such is the casewith the common cart, still used by the people of thelower part of Italy, for removing the fruits of the… … Calabrian Cart. Afterwards came the conviction that wheels might bemade larger, and in every respect more convenient, byhaving them hollow instead of solid; that is. having acentral nave, from which spokes radiate in every direc-tion, the remote ends of the spokes being encircled by arim. This was…
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